The EAT has confirmed that employers should consider reasonable adjustments to policies or practices which do not apply directly to disabled employees but which have an indirect effect on them. In this case the practice of other employees hot-desking affected the claimant because it meant that the desk dedicated for his use was not always free at the start of his shift. (Roberts v North West Ambulance, EAT)
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